I don’t know how many LGF pages and posts there are about the buddy-buddy relationship Alex Jones has with Ron and Rand Paul, but it’s a lot. But Rand Paul’s recent crypto-antivax remarks may clue everyone else in that he’s just as much of a raving loon as Jones or his good ol’ dad.

Source: Media Matters

MediaMatters has an excerpt from a recent edition of InfoWars, where Alex Jones not only defends Rand Paul, but proudly claims other things that Rand Paul apparently agrees with:

Jones:They’ve now had MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, and others attack Rand Paul, for DARING, Dr. Rand Paul, for saying that people have a right not to take vaccines… [he and Ron Paul] know what the vaccines are, they know what’s in the inserts… This is medical martial law.

Weirdly enough, Jones references a Washington Free Beacon article with a video of Rand Paul talking about vaccines and martial law, yet the Free Beacon broke the story of Rand Paul’s “Southern Avenger” aide. But I guess any kind of medium-to-long-term memory is beyond the mental faculties of the InfoWars crew.

Step 1: See what appears to be regurgitated, unvetted nonsense likely spreading rampant through the fascist blogosphere in order to assail the imminent destruction of ‘Murrka by n0bummer and the Alinskyite cadres.

Step 2: Not being privy to the rampant dementia infecting the idiot fasict blogosphere, Google it and find who’s talking about it.

nines09re: #1 HappyWarrior Hell no. Look to see if it's a lie? Fake? Untrue? Bullshit? TOO HARD. "Let me just pass it on and show my concern with what the lying left is doing to our Once Great Nation. I ...

Weppner is busy accusing Brian Higgins - a minority member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs - for bringing ISIS/ISIL about. The Committee is chaired by a California Republican. Weppner isn’t just insinuating, but stating in her commercials, that to defeat ISIS you have to “change your congressman”. What self-important and ridiculous nonsense. Is Weppner assuming that she would ascend to the same committee if elected, as if by noble right? What is it, precisely, that she would or could do differently from anyone else on the issue of the ISIS lunatics?

Also note that Weppner’s commercial is in direct and obvious violation of federal law requiring ads for federal office to indicate that Weppner “approves this message”. Pursuant to 2 USC§441d(d)(1)(A), any radio communication “shall include, in addition to the requirements of that paragraph, an audio statement by the candidate that identifies the candidate and states that the candidate has approved the communication.”

What part of “shall include” do you not understand?

So, in one breath, Kathy Weppner, the endorsed Republican candidate for NY’s 26th Congressional District, has outrageously accused Brian Higgins of enabling the rise of ISIS, has disgustingly tried to raise money and recruit volunteers over the murders of two American journalists, and violated federal law.

Portraying himself as a down-home Southerner who loves sweet tea (a fact he reminds readers of no fewer than nine times), Duck Dynasty, guns, and his hardline Southern Baptist faith, beneath Starnes’ folksy veneer is a far more venomous culture warrior.

What particularly rouses Starnes’ ire about the state of contemporary America is that it’s led by, as he pointedly notes, “Barack Hussein Obama.” Starnes laments throughout the book that Obama’s America is no longer the one in which in grew up - a country he depicts as more wholesome and unapologetically Christian, when women knew their place and gay people weren’t being as obnoxious with all that equal rights stuff:

I grew up in a much simpler time - when blackberry was a pie and dirty dancing meant somebody forgot to clean out the barn for the square dance. It was a time when father still knew best - when the girls were girls and the men were men. I grew up in a time when a rainbow was a sign of God’s promise, not gay rights.

Which begs a question - just how old is Todd Starnes?

If you go by his picture and hazard a guess, he is in his Forty’s? Fiftys? Sixties?

If he is in his sixties - he would have been born between 1954 and 1947. Which would have put him in puberty right around 1965. Here is what went for popular culture in 1965:

Sorry, if you were not one to be interested in the world at large - maybe this would be an image of the world in 1965:

Oh no, sorry, that is a cover of Esquire magazine with a woman shaving, circa 1965, you’d likely still have to read for that to have been part of your culture.

Maybe this is more an icon of his time:

That is Alabama, circa 1965.

And that is a Klan rally in Georgia, sometime around 1965.

And those are white people, in Selma, Alabama in 1965, standing to enforce the tradition that the southern apartheid we know as ‘Jim Crow’

Here is one thing Todd Starnes would not have seen in his budding teen years, circa 1965, in the south:

Those are wholesome African Americans dancing, which he would not have seen because those white men in the aforementioned picture, enforced racial segregation with brutality, even and often, death.

So. How old is Todd Starnes? you have to go a very very long way back in the south’s history to find a time that was truly wholesome for all its residents. Maybe back to pre-colonial days.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama turns 52 Sunday and Congressman Steve Stockman is getting him something he can use, a jobs plan.

“Barack Obama has more scandals and failures than he knows what to do with, so I decided to give him something he can use, a real plan to create jobs,” said Stockman. “If Obama wants to turn around the economy and end his legacy of failure he’ll repeal ObamaCare, abolish the unchecked regulatory state and leave employers free to create jobs.”

Stockman’s “Prosperity Plan” has four parts:

1) Repeal ObamaCare,
2) abolish the EPA,
3) pass the National Right to Work and Union Coercion Prevention acts to stop forced unionism and
4) repeal the individual and corporate income taxes,.

“A survey by the US Chamber of Commerce finds 74 percent of small employers will be forced to lay off workers or cut hours to stay in in business under ObamaCare, and 77 percent of the jobs created this year are only part-time. The first victim of ObamaCare’s death panels is jobs, and it’s time to pull the plug on this failed experiment with state controlled medicine,” said Stockman.

steve_davisLOL!! Notice at the end he signs it with Ernie Pyle's trademark "30" to signify end of copy for war reportage, back in a day when Pyle literally was risking--and eventually giving--his life while engaging in actual journalism.

Facing threats of national boycotts from Latino groups and a slew of online petitions, Whole Foods announced Friday that the organic grocery chain has revised its employee language policy following the suspension of two Spanish-speaking Albuquerque employees.

Whole Foods Market Inc. Co-CEO Walter Robb said in a blog post Friday that the recent “unfortunate incident” in Albuquerque prompted the Austin, Texas-based company to revise a policy that “does not reflect and is not in alignment with the spirit of this company.”

“First, we sincerely apologize that a section of our handbook regarding Team Member interactions in the workplace was not clearly written, and for any misunderstandings or offense it has created,” Robb wrote. “Its intention was to foster inclusion, not exclusion.”

Last week, two Albuquerque workers said they were suspended for a day with pay after complaining about the policy. A Whole Foods spokesman said that previous policy required that all “English-speaking workers must speak English to customers and other employees while on the clock, unless the customer speaks another language.”

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Last week Gothamist published a photo of a car in Brooklyn plastered with a ridiculous amount of offensive bumper stickers. That car turned out to belong to Heshi Fried—Fried is a Hardei, which is considered the most conservative form of Orthodox Judaism. Considering our negative take on his vehicle, we were pretty surprised when Fried called us this week to thank us for writing about him. “I think it was great, and you know, most people are very much with me, the people who are religious are basically all giving me a thumbs up,” Fried said. “Except secular Jews, who usually like, express shock. They feel like I’m causing anti-Semitism or something. They feel really embarrassed.”

Fried, who was a follower of Rabbi Avigdor Miller, was incredibly civil during our 30 minute conversation, during which we tried to pose questions based around the offensive bumper stickers he so proudly shows up. Fried confirmed he used to be a member of the fringe Hasidic group Jewish Political Action Committee, but after the big “Jews against the internet” protest at Citi Field a few years ago, they removed their website. “[The Rabbis] didn’t want us to have anything that may cause religious kids to go look at the internet to see what’s going on. So that’s one of reasons we removed the website.”

As for those bumper stickers, which he makes himself, Fried says it’s part of his goal to make as many people more observant as possible. He proceeded to explain each bumper sticker to us in detail, and how it stems from some passage in the Torah. But we pushed him about the Hurricane Sandy sticker in particular—how can someone possibly connect a weather phenomenon with a legislative action? Below, you can read Fried’s answer, which involves a very vengeance-happy, hail-and-brimstone Old Testament reading of God.

Well, I just feel like I want to Throw Up. It’s very disturbing to read about a religious Jew who embraces the crackpot ideas of the Westboro cult and the extreme creationists. Babushka remembers Avigdor Miller from the 1970’s. He was a fire-and-brimstone stand-up comedian-preacher whose lectures about young-earth creationism and anti-gay diatribes were taken primarily from fundamentalist Christian sources and crackpots like Emanuel Velikovsky. It’s very embarrassing to recall that at one time I actually thought he was entertaining, kind of the same way that Rush Limbaugh used to be funny back in the day.

Having these hateful notions is one thing—a person really ought to work on his middos (good qualities), keep hateful feelings to oneself and concentrate on loving one’s fellow human, even if that person has different beliefs, skin color, or sexual orientation. To plaster one’s vehicle with hateful messages just invites reciprocal hatred, key-scratching, tire-slashing and windshield smashing.

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